It has been my experience that folks who have no vices1 have very few virtues2.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
It is a great thing to know our vices.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. Brainard
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863
The better part of valour is discretion3.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act V, 4
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Lear", Act 5 scene 3
